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Monday, 28 September 2015

Advances in medicine over past 9 decades showcased at PMJ at 90 Symposium

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is organising a Symposium in London on 1st October 2015 to mark the 90th Anniversary of its first official journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal. The meeting will be held at the Medical Society of London.PMJ at 90 Programme Speakers and discussants will include FPM Fellows Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed who will discuss Progress in Personalised Medicine and Professor Peter Barnes FRS, who will speak on Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Professor Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham College,
Cambridge and Past-President of the Royal College of Physicians who will
discuss opportunities to improve public health through a focus on health in the
workplace, and pioneers neuroscience Lord Walton of Detchant and of allergy Dr William Frankland, who introduced the pollen count to help people with asthma and other allergies.

Sir Munir Pirmohamed was awarded a Personal Chair in Clinical Pharmacology at The
University of Liverpool in 2001, and in 2007, was appointed to the NHS
Chair of Pharmacogenetics. He was appointed the Head of the Department
of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool in
2010. Peter
Barnes has been Professor of Thoracic Medicine since 1987 and is Head
of Respiratory
Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Honorary
Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher
to be elected FRS for over 150 years.Other
speakers will include Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at BMJ, who will discuss the future for publishing medical journals, FPM Fellow cardiac surgeon Wade Dimitri (Coventry) who will
discuss early development of heart surgery, vascular surgeon Professor Alison Halliday (Oxford) on carotid
surgery to prevent stroke, Professor Melanie Davies (Leicester) on progress
in managing diabetes, FPM Fellow Andrew Marsh, who will
discuss new approaches drug discovery, Dr Paul Nunn (London), former Director of the WHO
Tuberculosis Programme, on advances in managing tuberculosis, Professor
Dudley Pennell (London) on advances in imaging the heart, FPM Fellow Professor Munir Pirmohamed (Liverpool) who will
discuss Progress in Personalised Medicine,Dr June Raine (MHRA, London) on vigilance and risk management of medicines, Emeritus Professor Terence Ryan (Oxford) on Sir William Osler, Professor Karol Sikora
(London) on cancer - a disease of our time, FPM President Professor
Donald Singer on preventing heart disease, and Dr David Wilkinson,
President
of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (London) on
development of anaesthesia over the past 90 years.The Postgraduate Medical Journal
publishes topical reviews, commentaries and original papers on themes
across the medical spectrum. It provides continuing
professional development for all doctors, from those in training, to
their teachers, and active clinicians,
by publishing papers on a wide
range of topics relevant to clinical practice. Papers published in PMJ describe current practice and new developments in all
branches of medicine;
describe relevance and impact
of translational research on clinical practice; provide background
relevant to examinations;
and papers on medical
education and medical education research. The
FPM is a British non-profit organisation founded in the autumn of 1919
as a merger of the Fellowship of Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical
Association, with Sir William Osler
as its first president. Its initial aims were the development of
educational programmes in all branches of postgraduate medicine. The FPM now organises clinical and research
meetings and publishes two journals. The FPM has since 1925 published
the international journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal. In 2012 the
Fellowship launched a new international journal, Health Policy and
Technology, published on the Fellowship's behalf by Elsevier.

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The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine organises clinical and research meetings and publishes two journals. The FPM has since 1925 published the international journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal. In 2012 the Fellowship launched a new international journal:Health Policy and Technology, published on the Fellowship's behalf by Elsevier.